One of my neighbors had an apple tree he said was the last of his family line of cider apples from pre-1850. It was robust, and produced tasty but small apples

One of my neighbors had an apple tree he said was the last of his family line of cider apples from pre-1850. It was robust, and produced tasty but small apples so reliably and profusely, that the whole forest knew where it was. Out in the middle of the clearing where his Grandpa's house had been. It got run over by someone with a semi truck as they repossessed an excavator from a different neighbor. They managed to take out 3 black walnut trees at the same time, too. I kick myself for not getting a cutting, while I could. That tree had resistance to the Cedar-Apple Rust that kills apple trees around here. We can't even get crab apples to live long enough to bear fruit, on this hill.